Man-lock


noun
1.
an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
noun
1.
(civil engineering) an airlock that allows workmen to pass in and out of spaces with differing air pressures, esp one providing access to and from a tunnel, shaft, or caisson in which the air is compressed

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